A Justice Site
A Justice Site
Understanding Technology As It Fits into our Culture
Variations by jeanne on a Reuters photo in the Los Angeles Times
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UWP Criminal Justice Dept. - CSUDH Dept. of Sociology
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California State University, Dominguez Hills
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Created: November 17 2006
Latest Update: November 17, 2006
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Pat and I will come in the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, but we'll leave at the correct time, assuming a lecture period of 1:00 to 2:15. That's because the traffic will be horrendous, and many of us have a long way to go.I know that some of you will not be able to make it, but we wanted to be there for those who needed us. jeanne
Finding Messages; Making Stickers; Building Community How about a sticker from this week's image?
The size is just about right. I think "people matter" is kind of a nice message to get out there. And you know by now that I would like to see us do a follow up on the message. Well, if "people matter," so do students. Can we come up with a students matter, or students are people, or some other catch phrase that might work to get our community thinking about how all the insane building around us matters, how we sort the focal things that matter most out from all that technology, and how we can help our young people do the same? I need to slow down for a while. But I'll keep it in mind. Send me your ideas, too. jeanne
The last task I'll ask you to perform for this class is to get our stickers out there. So think hard. By next week we need to have some. Where do stickers come from? Playing with our own art.
love and peace, jeanne
Catalog for Fall 2006 Naked Space Exhibit
At the American Society of Criminology National Meetings in Los Angeles in November 2006.
The catalog is separated into sections to keep the files at least relatively short. jeanne
- Catalog Cover for Believe It. Own It. Series 1. Fall 2006.
- Section 1: Our Flag and Its Meaning to This Nation-State
- Section 2: Using Unit Shapes for Image Creation
- Section 3: Models and Instructions
References:
- UWP's Collaborative Drawings
Race and the Death Penalty
Now I expect a story. When did the deer learn to read? What's the penguin so depressed about? Is that really a gay marriage? Is that a student being creatively thoughtful or someone in the electric chair? Do your kids have books in Wisconsin? Some of ours don't. Is the Knight in shining armor a Republican or a democrat? Well, at any rate, it certainly looks like there's lots to discuss. jeanne
Susan just e-mailed what the title was. I had already e-mailed her: "Sorry about the gay marriage. Here's how it happened. I had the family in aqua like they did, but then the background went blue, and I used pink to make it stand out. That made me think of gay marriage." See how titles change our perceptions? Could that be why so many works are "untitled?" The family was very close to the school, which I had added, as a factor in deviance and crime, and gay marriage is seen by many as some kind of disaster that would surely contribute to something awful. So in a weird round-about way it does fit into your theme.
Change the colors. Change some of the drawings. Make it closer to your imaginary than mine. See, in my imaginary, when Arnold and I were in Belgium, we went to the symphony, and some nice lady behind us kept "whispering" "the queen is in green." Arnold and I giggled, since we had just been seeing lots of green outhouses for construction in the States. So, when you're desperate, stick in a private joke. People will find their own interpretations. Were some of you playing hangman; is that what one of the figures on the left represents?
By the way, I framed what looked like a family gathering on the right side. But it could have been a family gathering of "Ladies of the Night," for all I knew. I just thought the form was neat. That might make a good sticker if you could clarify the meaning. Like a word will do.
Susan says can I teach you do conceptual art? No. You're already doing it. You're putting some kind of image, albeit primitive, down on paper as a representation of something that has become focal for you at the moment. That is conceptual art. All I'm doing is building on what you've already done with color, line, my own weird memories, shapes until the whole thing makes me look twice and want to figure out what it's all about. Artists aren't photographers. They're not trying to capture the world as seen by me. They're making marks - marks that mean something to them - and they want to share that meaning, that feeling with you. Trust me, you can make marks. And you can never be wrong, because they're your marks. Just play with them until they form a whole you'd like to see again because it has some significance for you. Voilà. jeanne
- Working with Portraits: New Portraits of Pat
I started last week with the one above. But then I thought of other things I could do that might give you some ideas for making your own. You could use my Paint sketch and do your own portrait of Pat. The file is at http:// www.habermas.org/patportrait001.gif, but it's got only gray lines.
I played some more with reluctant software and got this.
Now, that should inspire a story! Can you find the turtle? Of course, he's been mixed up with something else, but I'll bet it's a good story. Have fun! jeanne
I was looking at that black and white drawing. I see a turtle head on the left. A green turtle, of course, as green as the the Isle of yore. He's carting a pyramid on his back. However did he manage that? It must be as a symbol of all that man has achieved on the great African continent. And, why, that looks like Pat sitting in a director's chair, filming the story of all these happenings in history. Now, who would ever have thought that Pat would direct a great film on African history? See why you must do portraits? They set us free. Free to be. All we can be.
Maybe this portrait will be a memory you want to keep of this, your final year at CSUDH. Worried you'll forget names and faces?
Feel free to play. See how I added a U curve, a couple of letters, and put her name in the center of the portrait. You may need to know a little bit about layering to do some of these additions, but let me know if you need help. By next semester I'll get up instructions. jeanne
- Froggy Portrait Coming Soon
And Not Just for Kids
Model for Froggy Hanging Portrait
More complete instructions coming soon. This one's interactive with messages that Froggy can put in his pocket to you.
Triangle Shapes With Stickers People Can Take 
Hands Clean?
If we post two little envelopes with this, one with "yes," one with "no," people can respond by taking the appropriate answer and putting it in the appropriate pocket on the card. We could put these in public space restrooms to make people aware of the importance of washing their hands. This is also important for Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), the virus that causes cancer. After the vaccination, washing our hands well and frequently is our best defense.
I considered making a cartoon of the soap and the germ. In each frame the soap would get closer to catching the germ, until finally, all was safe and well. Maybe some of you could work on it.
Whose job is it to do such things in our communities, in the criminal justice system? If it's everybody's job, it often ends up being no one's job. Make your neighborhood aware, and encourage others to join in on the task of keeping us all aware.
Left/Right Perspectives - Cursor - New York Times - The National Review
Arts and Letters Daily - The Economist - The Sierra Club - The Guardian
Wall Street Journal - The Weekly Standard - The Nation - The Cato Institute (Libertarian)
BBC NEWS | Americas - truthout - Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times - Chicago Tribune - La Opinion - The Washington Post
Cursor's Al Jazeera Archive - Ha'aretz - Palestine Monitor - Palestine Report
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